Roller-bearing support for track-cables.



No.73 9,984. PATENTED SEPT. 29, 1903.

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ROLLER BEARING SUPPORT FOR TRAGK CABLES. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 29. 1902.

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PATENTED SEPT: 29, 1903.

C. A. CASE. ROLLER. BEARING SUPPORT FOR TRACK -GABLESL APPLICATION IILED AUG. 29, 1902.

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No. 739,984. Patented September 29, 1903.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. CASE, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

RO LLER-BEARI NG S U PPO RT FO R TRACK-CABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,984, dated September 29, 1903.

Application filed August 29, 1902. Serial No. 121,464. (No model.) I

To all whom; t ay concern: support or saddle D to the beams G of the Be it known that I, CHARLES A. CASE, a cititower. zen of the United States of America, and a I sometimes extend the lower portion of resident of Trenton, in the county of Mercer the bearing-plate, as shown at D, to consti- 55 and State of New Jersey, have invented certute a guide, by means of which the trolley tain new and useful Improvements in Rolleror carriage J is prevented coming into con- Bearing Supports for Track-Cables, of which tact with the linked chains F. the following is a specification. In a trackcable system the cables are ar- This invention relates to supports for track ranged to move as freely as possible over the (o :0 cables, and its object is the production of supports, and when a trolley or carriage of rollerbearing supports for the said cables the system is between the supports the ca- Which will allow the cables tomove and adble is caused to move over the said supports just themselves on the supports without exby reason of the weight of the trolley on the cessive friction. I cable. 65 Referring to the drawings, Figure l repre- By the application of my roller-bearing supsents an elevation of a tower with my invenport to track-cables it is evident that the cation and acable-carriage. Figs..2 and 3 show bles can move thereon without excessive fricrespectively a partial end and top view of tion. Fig. 1. Fig. it represents a section of Fig. 3 Having described my invention, I claim- 70 on the line m 00,, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 5 1. In a track-cable system the combination shows a partial section of Fig. 4 on the line of a support, rollers encircling and carried on y 11 Fig. 6 is a top view of Fig. 4. the support, and a cable carried by the rollers. A tower to carry my supports is represented 2. In a track-cable system the combination to comprise the inclined posts A, connected of a support, rollers encircling and carried on 75 z 5 by rafters B, which latter support the beams the support, means to maintain the rollers to O, that carry the supports or saddles D. the support, and a cable carried by the rollers. Each of the supports or saddles D com- 1 3. In atrack-cable system the combination prises a bed-plate D, from which extends a of a support, rollers encircling and carried on bearing-plate D the two latter being generthe support, means to connect the rollers to- 80 3o ally connected by ribs D The bearing-plate gether, and a cable carried by the rollers.

is preferably made elliptical in its contour, 4. In a track-cable system the combination as shown in the drawings, although it may of a support, rollers encircling and carried on be made circular or of other curvature, and the support, and chains connecting the rollers the circumferential surface thereof is prefertogether. ably semicylindrical to form a suitable sup- 5. The combination of a support, abearingport for the concaved rollers E,-which encirplate withasemicircular circumferential edge cle the support or saddle on the circumferenon the support, rollers with concaved circumtial surface. The rollers E are supported on ferential surfaces encircling and carried on v axles E, that are carried on linked chains F, the circumferential edge of the said bearing- 0 the combination of the support with the rollplate. ers forming a roller-bearing support. 6. In a track-cable system the combination In the bed-plate D there is formed an openof a support, rollers encircling and carried on ing D to allow the insertion of a roller G, the support, means to connect the rollers towhich turns inthe bearings G with the caps gether, a cable carried by the rollers, and a 9 5 5 G the former extending from the said bedroller in the support to guide a traction-rope.

plate. The roller G serves as a guide and 7. The combination of asupport abearing= support for the traction-rope I of the carriage plate extending from the support, rollers car J, carried on the cable 11, and prevents the ried on and encircling the said plate, a chain said traction-rope coming into contact with connecting the rollers, and a roller journaled zoo the beams of the tower when the carriage is in the support. not over the said tower. Bolts D fasten the 8. In a track-cable system, the combination of a support, a bearing-surface semicircular a cable carried by the rollers, and a guide IO in cross-section extending from the support, extending from the said bearing-plate. rollers with concaved surfaces carried on and Signed at New York, county and State of encircling the said bearingsurface, and a New York, this 236. day of August, 1902. cable carried 011 the rollers. 9. In a track-cable system the combination CHARLES CASE of a support, a bearing-plate extending from lVitnesses: the support, rollers carried on and encircling R. P. EDSON, the said plate, chains connecting the rollers, FRANK A. COX. 

